The Great Reset
This is the re-beginning of this blog. I did not feel that my previous work was worth keeping online. So, I have archived it and set it aside. I have left a permalink around for my most popular previous article but besides that, this is a completely new blog.
My name is Julian Krause. However, I go by the alias TheCrypto pretty much everywhere. The nickname came from when I was trying to register for a domain name after reading Cryptonomicon. I enjoy cryptography and security is all of it's forms so the name stuck.
My current job is programming web applications in Python at my university's bioinformatics department. My hobbies include lots of programming but also things like role-playing games, juggling, and getting organized.
I do most of my programming in the Python programming language as I enjoy programming in it the most. The simple readability of the language combined with the intricate pieces that fit together beautifully make it my favorite language.
Role-playing games is another activity I enjoy. I'm currently playing in the World of Darkness games but I enjoy a good game of Dungeons and Dragons or Shadowrun.
I picked up juggling recently from some friends of mine and it's a pretty interesting hobby. Also seeing what some people can pull off with their hands is just amazing. And you can't hurt improving your hand-eye corrdinatation.
Getting and staying organized is another activity. I've join the rabid group of people Getting Things Done. I also follow 43Folders and the Lifehacks groups as well. It's been the first system that has helped me in any way so I'm sticking with it.
The main point of this blog is to get down my ideas and, hopefully, find some people to help with them. I am probably going to be rewriting my blog software soon as well to do some things that PyBlosxom, which I do enjoy using, just can't do without a major rewrite. A log of my current development projects will be on the development section of this site that you can see in the sidebar.
My development work I do on a seperate subdomain, software. I'm currently investigating several version control systems that will work in my setup. I need something that I can rsync the entire repository into a web server and it should just work. Darcs has some issues and Bazaar-NG isn't working enough yet either.
Welcome to TheCrypto's Blog.
TC Out
